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Great Room Ideas
The great room is where family often convenes most. Make this space warm and inviting with our great room ideas, including fireplace designs, great room decor, furniture, window treatments, great room lighting schemes, and more.
How to Decorate a Fireplace Mantel
The mantel is an underestimated fireplace feature that can set the tone in any living space. Here's how to decorate a fireplace mantel to work with the design in your timber home.
Why a Wood-Burning Fireplace is Worth the Investment
It's time to rekindle your romance with an old flame: the wood-burning fireplace.
3 Tips for Lighting Your Vaulted Ceiling
Successful lighting design in a timber home with cathedral and vaulted ceilings soaring 20-plus feet into the air creates an ad...
The Benefits of Building a Hybrid Timber Frame Home
Whether you want an eclectic look or a way to keep the budget in check, a hybrid timber home offers a variety of advantages.
3 Large Timber Frame Windows We Love
Windows play a critical role in your timber home’s design. Think about it: Next to the shape and style
of the house, windows ...
Spatial Effects: How to Fit Furniture into Your Timber Frame
Ensure your home and the rooms inside are appropriately sized by planning ahead.
5 Tips to Designing Your Dream Great Room Floor Plan
Follow these 5 easy tips to design the perfect great room for your timber home.
What Window Treatments to Apply to Large Timber Frame Windows
Have huge windows in your great room? Here's what window treatments to use for your large timber frame windows.
Design Ideas for Built-Ins
Carve out customized units in your timber home to address storage needs and complement your home’s style along the way with bui...
13 Design Ideas for a Cozy Timber Home
Longing for comfort? Follow these thirteen design ideas and soon your timber home will be the coziest place around.
Masonry Heaters and Bakeovens
Combining the ancient wonders of nature with innovative design and technology, Tulikivi masonry heaters bring energy-efficient ...
The Beauty of Built-Ins
When a home employs the open-format layout popular in many timber homes, it can be even more difficult to find places to stash ...
The Winners of the Timber Home Living Readers' Choice Awards
The best in home design, chosen by the real timber-frame enthusiasts: you!
Creating an Inviting Timber Home Entryway
Set the right tone for your home at its onset with an inviting entryway.
25 Tips to Small-Home Success
If you're thinking of building your own timber-home cabin or cottage, you'll need to be smart about your home's final design. W...
9 Fabulous Fireplaces
Your home's fireplacement is serious business. In this photo gallery we share 9 of the all-time best fireplaces to heat up any ...
Get Stoked: Freestanding Fireplaces
Bye-bye brick and stone. Freestanding hearth products are all the rage in timber home design.
